Scientific Linux is a Linux release put together by various labs and universities around the world. Scientific Linux's primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimentors.
The base Scientific Linux distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source.
Our main goal for the base distribution is to have everything compatible with Enterprise, with only a few minor additions or changes. An example of of items that were added are Pine, and OpenAFS.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· penAFS fixed
· The selinux openafs problem has been fixed.
· SL_password_for_singleuser fixed
· The mechanism to enforce password authentication has changed, that's now configured in /etc/sysconfig/init. This update reflects that change.
· Compiled packages against TUV packages
· We have finished the check of our packages against TUV packages. We check files, permissions, scripts, requires, depends, and a few other checks. When there was a discrepancy we rebuilt our package using different parameters to match TUV packages.
· With this release we fixed the following packages. elinks jwhois perl-CGI-Session perl-IPC-Run3 perl-Makefile-Parser perl-Sys-Virt perl-Test-Memory-Cycle
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